Vincent Allègre
French politician (1835–1899)
Vincent Gaëtan Allègre (7 August 1835 – 18 May 1899) was a French lawyer and politician. He was a radical republican and was dismissed from his position as mayor of Toulon by the monarchist ministry of Albert de Broglie in 1873. From 1876 to 1881 he was Deputy of Var. He was then Governor of Martinique from 1881 to 1887, and Senator of Martinique from 1888 until his death in 1899.
Life
Early years
Vincent Gaëtan Allègre was born on 7 August 1835 in Six-Fours, Var.
His parents were Jean Baptiste Allègre (born 1798), a sea captain, and Henriette Alexandrine Baptistine Aycard (born 1808).
His paternal grandfather was a garde champêtre on the King's estates.
His family was legitimist, supporters of the Bourbon dynasty.
Vincent Allègre became a lawyer and registered at the bar of Toulon, Var.
After the fall of the Second French Empire and its replacement by the French Third Republic on 4 September 1870 Allègre was named mayor of Toulon.
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